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> South, it is blocked by the US border There's a long stretch of land between Vancouver and the US border (30 min drive maybe?) with mostly empty land. Am I m

> South, it is blocked by the US border There's a long stretch of land between Vancouver and the US border (30 min drive maybe?) with mostly empty land. Am I missing something?

alacombe 9y ago
Yes, it's farm land. But still, the closest "rural" areas beside Delta is about 1h travel from downtown.
guardiangod 9y ago
Yeah, the lack of high-capacity bridges across the rivers. The house prices in that 30 minutes worth of land (I live in it) are also approaching $1 million. The only reason they don't go higher is because of commuting. The newly elected provincial government has just announced they will suspend the construction of a new bridge; many condo and houses to the south were built with the assumption that the bridge will open and make the southern suburb much more attractive. For whatever reason, the mayor of Vancouver and its immediate surrounding satellite cities (Burnaby, Richmond, etc.) are fighting hard to not expand the road system. Instead they are 'pushing' for better mass (not rapid) transit between the out-rim suburb and the core cities. I don't know if they are sincere in reducing traffic, but this has an knock-on effect of keeping the house prices in the core cities much higher than otherwise (eg. a rapid transit thru that 30 minutes worth of land.)
- desdiv 9y ago
  >For whatever reason, the mayor of Vancouver and its immediate surrounding satellite cities (Burnaby, Richmond, etc.) are fighting hard to not expand the road system. Instead they are 'pushing' for better mass (not rapid) transit between the out-rim suburb and the core cities. Not expanding the road system is a counter-intuitive strategy to reduce traffic jams, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7965077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7965077 I won't pass judgement on whether it works or not, but it does appear to be supported by logic and data, so those mayors aren't just acting on NIMBYism.
nikanj 9y ago
That's the agricultural land reserve. Can't build there, aside from mansions. https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/investigations/farmland-and-real-estate-in-british-columbia/article32923810/?ref=https://www.theglobeandmail.com&service=mobile https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/investigations/farmlan...

> South, it is blocked by the US border There's a long stretch of land between Vancouver and the US border (30 min drive maybe?) with mostly empty land. Am I missing something?

alacombe 9y ago

Yes, it's farm land. But still, the closest "rural" areas beside Delta is about 1h travel from downtown.

guardiangod 9y ago

Yeah, the lack of high-capacity bridges across the rivers. The house prices in that 30 minutes worth of land (I live in it) are also approaching $1 million. The only reason they don't go higher is because of commuting. The newly elected provincial government has just announced they will suspend the construction of a new bridge; many condo and houses to the south were built with the assumption that the bridge will open and make the southern suburb much more attractive. For whatever reason, the mayor of Vancouver and its immediate surrounding satellite cities (Burnaby, Richmond, etc.) are fighting hard to not expand the road system. Instead they are 'pushing' for better mass (not rapid) transit between the out-rim suburb and the core cities. I don't know if they are sincere in reducing traffic, but this has an knock-on effect of keeping the house prices in the core cities much higher than otherwise (eg. a rapid transit thru that 30 minutes worth of land.)

desdiv 9y ago
>For whatever reason, the mayor of Vancouver and its immediate surrounding satellite cities (Burnaby, Richmond, etc.) are fighting hard to not expand the road system. Instead they are 'pushing' for better mass (not rapid) transit between the out-rim suburb and the core cities. Not expanding the road system is a counter-intuitive strategy to reduce traffic jams, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7965077 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7965077 I won't pass judgement on whether it works or not, but it does appear to be supported by logic and data, so those mayors aren't just acting on NIMBYism.

nikanj 9y ago

That's the agricultural land reserve. Can't build there, aside from mansions. https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/investigations/farmland-and-real-estate-in-british-columbia/article32923810/?ref=https://www.theglobeandmail.com&service=mobile https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/investigations/farmlan...